The Guardian
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(Island Records)
The millennial Queen try to return to multi-platinum sales with songs that are forever climaxing – to wearying effect
About two thirds of the way through Lizzy Goodman’s history of 2000s US alt-rock, Meet Me in the Bathroom, the Killers turn up. The sense that the book’s other protagonists think they’re a little non-U is hard to miss. They are not, by the standards of the time, cool: gawky and awkward in person, unapologetically ambitious and commercial, not interested in the kind of hedonism that derails half their peers.
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Thu Aug 20 11:00:19 GMT 2020